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The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Scaphandre et la Papillon), then in Jean-Jacques Beineix's half-hour 1997 documentary of Bauby at work, released under the same title, and, ten years after that, in this Cannes-selected docudrama, helmed by Julian Schnabel (Basquiat) and adapted from the memoir by Ronald Harwood (Cromwell). The Schnabel/Harwood picture follows Bauby's story to the letter -- his instantaneous descent from a wealthy and congenial playboy and the editor of French Elle, to a bed-bound, hospitalized stroke victim with an inactive brain stem that made it impossible for him to speak or move a muscle of his body. This prison, as it were, became a kind of "diving bell" for Bauby -- one with no means of escape. With the editor's mind unaffected, his only solace lay in the "butterfly" of his seemingly depthless fantasies and memories. Because of Bauby's physical restriction, he only possessed one channel for communication with the outside world: ocular activity. By moving his eyes and blinking, he not only began to interact again with the world around him, but -- astonishingly -- authored the said memoir via a code used to signify specific letters of the alphabet. In Schnabel's picture, Mathieu Amalric tackles the difficult role of Bauby; the film co-stars Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Jos?e Croze, Anne Consigny, and Patrick Chesnais.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2011
UPC:	0065935844150
Original Release:	0000
Source:	Ais
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Sales rank:	61,679

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mathieu Amalric	Jean-Dominique 'Jean Do' Bauby
Emmanuelle Seigner	C?line Desmoulin
Anne Consigny	Claude
Max von Sydow	Young Papinou,Actor
Patrick Chesnais	Doctor Lepage
Niels Arestrup	Roussin
Olatz Lopez Garmendia	Marie Lopez
Jean-Pierre Cassel	Father Lucien
Marina Hands	Jos?phine
Isaach De Bankole	Laurent
Gerard Watkins	Doctor Cocheton,Actor
Th?o Sampaio	Th?ophile
Fiorella Campanella	C?leste
Talina Boyaci	Hortense
Emma de Caunes	Empresse Eug?nie
Jean-Philippe ?coffey	Noirtier de Villefort
Nicolas Le Riche	Actor
Anne Alvaro	Betty
Francoise Lebrun	Madame Bauby
Zinedine Soualem	Joubert
Georges Roche	Fourneau
Agathe De La Fontaine	In?s
Franck Victor	Paul
Laure de Clermont	Diane
Philippe Roux	Auxiliary Nurse
Elvis Polanski	Jean-Do as a Child
Sara S?gu?la	Paraplegic at Lourdes
Marie Meyer	Model
Lenny Kravitz	Lenny Kravitz
Azzedine Alaia	Azzedine Alaia
Michael Wincott	Michael Wincott
Jean-Baptiste Mondino	Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Farida Khelfa	Farida Khelfa
Marie-Jos?e Croze	Henriette Roi,Actor
Nicholas Le Riche	Nijinski
Yves-Marie Coppin	Fisherman
Fran?ois Delaive	Nurse
Daniel Lapostolle	Auxiliary Nurse 1
Francis Filloux	Night Nurse
Vasile Negru	Violinist
Ilze Bajare	Model
Anna Chyzh	Model
Antoine Breant	Jean-Baptiste Mondino's Assistant
Jean-Pierre Cassell	Actor
Lopez Garmendia	Actor
Paul Cantelon	Composer

Technical Credits

Ronald Harwood	Screenwriter
Georges Demetreau	Special Effects
Jon Kilik	Producer
Kathleen Kennedy	Producer
Pascal Guegan	Stunts
Dominique Gaborieau	Sound/Sound Designer
Francis Wargnier	Sound Editor,Sound/Sound Designer
J?r?me Seydoux	Producer
Ronald Hardwood	Screenwriter
Pierre Grunstein	Producer,Executive Producer
Jim Lemley	Executive Producer
Pierre Frunstein	Executive Producer
G?rard Moul?vrier	Casting
Jean-Paul Mugel	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

PART I. Youth,
1. Father, 5,
2. Mother, 8,
3. The Snowball, 12,
4. Winters, 15,
5. The Visors, 16,
6. Brother, 18,
7. The Horror, 21,
8. Let Me Go!, 22,
9. An Aside on Flying, 24,
10. The First City, 25,
11. Secret and Sacred, 29,
12. Theologians, 32,
13. Life's Novices, 35,
14. Metamorphosis, 38,
15. The King of the Waltz, 43,
16. Lusting after the Wind, 47,
17. In the City of Styrian Grand Dukes, 50,
18. A Tract on Noses, 54,
19. Kisses and Voltaire, 57,
20. The Light, 62,
21. The Impossible, 64,
22. And the Moon Is Your Neighbor, 68,
23. The Duel, 72,
24. A Different Graz, 74,
25. Disappearing, 77,
26. All Nature Stood Still, 82,
27. Do You Want to See Golden Prague?, 85,
28. The Smart Cabbage, 89,
29. The Decadent, 93,
30. The Park, 97,
31. Without Love, 101,
32. The Crossing, 108,
33. The Light of the Mortals, 114,
PART II. America,
34. The Deaf Man's House, 119,
35. The Death of the Skeleton, 127,
36. Nothing, 131,
37. Come!, 133,
38. To Bite Off an Ear, 136,
39. "The Dangerous Classes", 139,
40. The Blind Tiger, 144,
41. The Transformations of Athena, 148,
42. From the Stuttering Diary, 150,
43. Success, 153,
44. Pittsburgh, 157,
45. The Engineers, 162,
46. The Blind Say at the Eyes Stink, 166,
47. For Everything at Lives, 169,
48. The Bearded Lady, 172,
49. Put the Hands in Jars of Water, 175,
50. Through Our Sister Bodily Death, 177,
51. After Never, 183,
52. The London Miracle, 186,
53. Paris, 189,
54. The Rush, 192,
55. Ba-Bam, 195,
56. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, 199,
57. The Glare, 200,
58. The Midsummer's Night Dream, 206,
59. You Will See!, 213,
60. The World Expo, 217,
61. In a Fantasy World, 221,
62. On Top of the World, 226,
63. People from the Hat, 228,
64. Così fan tutte, 233,
65. The Ice Palace, 239,
66. Pulse! Pulse!, 241,
67. A Hole in the Gut, 244,
68. Theven the Soul, 247,
69. Days of 1896, 250,
70. Yen-yen, 255,
71. The Maelstrom, 260,
72. The Marriage of Dusan, 266,
73. The War, 270,
74. The Astoria, 273,
75. We Won't, 277,
76. Without Soiling em, 279,
77. The Gorgon's Hair, 284,
78. Zeus Commands the Thunderbolt, 287,
79. Tesla Toasts the Twentieth Century, 290,
PART III. The New Century,
80. The Fearsome Nose, 295,
81. The Big Nameless, 300,
82. The Belt, 303,
83. Pygmalion, 306,
84. The Span of a Dog's Life, 310,
85. Three Quiet Miracles, 314,
86. Behemoth, 317,
87. The Crash, 322,
88. Sorrowfully Yours, 324,
89. The Sinking Ships, 326,
90. The Swan, the Bull, and the Shower of Gold, 329,
91. Coney Island, 332,
92. The Shaman Dandy, 337,
93. From the Diary, 342,
94. I Have Three Sons, 344,
95. The Night Train to Wardenclyffe, 345,
96. Distant Rhythms, 349,
97. The New Automaton, 351,
98. They Shall Take Up Serpents, 352,
99. The Light of Shanghai, 357,
100. For the Souls!, 361,
101. Theast of the Sun, West of the Moon, 365,
102. On the Too-Merry Carousel of the Merciless Sunset, 370,
103. Millions of Screaming Windows, 372,
104. Um-Pa-um-Pa!, 373,
105. Lipstick, 375,
106. The Nose and the Parted Hair, 378,
107. Choose the Best Possible Life, 383,
108. But People Never, 385,
109. Only Pains Hear, Only Needs See, 388,
110. Did We Live the Same Life?, 392,
111. I Didn't Know How ..., 394,
112. Dear Tesla, 396,
113. Whenever ..., 397,
114. A Letter to the Dove, 398,
115. And Then, 399,
116. The Honoree, 401,
117. Forgotten, 408,
118. The Bride of Frankenstein, 413,
119. Because There's No Money, 418,
120. The Ghost Taxi, 420,
121. I'm Not Afraid Anymore, 425,
122. The War of the Worlds, 428,
123. The Furies, 435,
124. Continuity, 439,
125. The Bard, 443,
126. Ghosts and Pigeons, 447,
127. Pain, Time, and the Importance of All Things Cease to Be, 449,

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Editorial Reviews

Julian Schnabel danced up to the edge of greatness in Basquiat and Before Night Falls. With The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, he plunges in headfirst. To call this a sophisticated achievement is a massive understatement, failing to appreciate how much nuance, warmth, and uniqueness of perspective is poured into Schnabel's third film. The fact that it's shot in French, a foreign tongue for the director, only adds to the feat. "Language," in the abstract sense, interests a visual artist like Schnabel greatly, and language is at the forefront of the true story of Jean-Dominique ("Jean-Do") Bauby, a paralyzed stroke victim who dictates his memoirs through eyelid blinks. Every affliction imaginable has been dramatized on film, but maybe we've never imagined something quite like locked-in syndrome. Bauby's fully functioning mind has only a single eyeball as an outlet for expression, and must spell out words by selecting them one letter at a time, blinking when the appropriate letter is recited to him. This could be the sole concentration of a really interesting film. But screenwriter Ronald Harwood has adapted Bauby's memoirs as a full-blooded character study, with a crucial assist from lead actor Mathieu Amalric, who excels at both ends of Bauby's spectrum: the carefree magazine editor, seen in flashbacks waltzing through glamorous photo shoots, and the gnarled human shell whose single eye darts about wildly, in an apparent state of permanent panic. Schnabel employs a variety of camera angles and techniques to mimic Jean-Do's perspective, as well as a recurring visual metaphor for his condition: a deep-sea diver plunged down to the depths, totally incommunicado. So effectively does Schnabel put us in his shoes, Jean-Do becomes our John Doe -- an ordinary man grappling (or sometimes failing to grapple) with extraordinary circumstances. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly explodes our preconceived notions about disease movies, emerging as one of the most striking films ever made about communication. The moving supporting performances -- including the quartet of women at his side, and Max von Sydow as his elderly father -- complete this rich and emotionally fulfilling package.

10/06/2014
Serbian writer Pištalo’s novel gives a compelling fictionalized account of inventor Nikola Tesla’s inscrutable and solitary life. From a young age, Tesla forsook love as a fool’s distraction that impeded work and serious studies. He worked as a professor in Croatia before moving to the United States in search of Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of his time. Much to Tesla’s dismay, he soon finds Edison to be a hack who steals ideas from others. He quits his job under Edison and bounces around before finding space to invent again. Soon after, Tesla invents the alternating current electrical system—perhaps his most notable creation. As a result of his success, Tesla meets some of the world’s most important and famous figures, including a memorable encounter with Mark Twain (“If you don’t count thinking,” Tesla tells Twain, “I’m the laziest man in the world”). But his life remains lonely and as Tesla watches many of those around him succumb to disease, addiction, and age, he remains solitary to a fault. The book is episodic with some narration tics: for instance, at times, the unnamed narrator breaks the fourth wall. The book does not rise to the level of mythos associated with Tesla’s story, and is less biography than a fragmented set of impressions, but Pištalo’s thorough account of a great man’s personality and habits is done to fine effect. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Tesla: A Portrait with Masks:

“Beautifully written, immensely entertaining, and astonishingly original in the way it tells the story of a man who they used to say ‘invented the twentieth century,’ but whose life is still an enigma, Tesla: A Portrait with Masks has the richness, the high jinks and the originality of such modern classics as Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” —Charles Simic

"Tesla is a profoundly absorbing meditation on the early, defining years of the modern age. Vladimir Pistalo has drawn a lightning-etched portrait of a genius as powerful, as transformative and as mysterious as electricity itself." —Ken Kalfus, author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

"Much has been written about Nikolai Tesla, but Vladimir Pistalo's extraordinary and profoundly original novel manages to tell us something entirely new—not only about the brilliant 'mad-genius' inventor but also about the ways in which literature and the imagination can transform biography into great art." —Francine Prose, author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

"Recommended for readers who enjoy a life story told with pizzazz." —Library Journal

From the Publisher

12/01/2014
Inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison—the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of their era? That's the publisher's fanciful characterization of this account of the life of Serbian-born Tesla (1856–1943), whose numerous inventions include the alternating-current electrical system and wireless communication. Sarajevo-born Pištalo, who won Serbia's prestigious NIN Prize and of whose 11 books of fiction this is the first to be published in English, tracks his subject from lowly village boy through his travels to western Europe then on to America, where he tangles with Edison and George Westinghouse, experiences dire poverty, then rises to renown—"Lady Astor's salon could accommodate only the Four Hundred. Tesla was one of them." Along the way he also rubs shoulders with Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Poland's former prime minister Ignacy Paderewski, and Stanford White, among others. Pištalo's exuberance at times leads to such sentences as "Abstract concepts flew from Tesla's mouth like cosmic winds that powered ethereal engines." Though the author provides a wealth of detail, we don't glimpse Tesla from the inside out. The translation is aptly idiomatic. VERDICT Recommended for readers who enjoy a life story told with pizzazz.—Edward B. Cone, New York

Library Journal

★ 2014-12-07
In his first novel translated into English, Pištalo recounts the tortured, fascinating life of Nikola Tesla, a familiar figure in pop culture and history. This tale charts much of Tesla's life: his fraught relationship with his father, his feud with Edison, his seclusion in old age. But Pištalo's great achievement is to see beyond the familiar. Absent is the forbidding notion of the "great man" found in many biographies; with the freedom of fiction, Pištalo shows a fragile but driven individual, easily wounded, somewhat arrogant and tortured by memories of family trauma. Is poetic license taken occasionally? Absolutely. But this isn't nonfiction. Instead, it has the scope of biography, the intimacy of fiction and the elegance of poetry. Pištalo's fractured structure—with elliptical chapters—provides the sense of a life being lived in front of the reader, moment by moment. (This remains true despite some authorial intrusions, e.g., "At this point of the story, I have to gently but firmly take the reader by the arm….") But finally, there is Tesla himself at the center, a figure from history who, here, seems appealingly modern—a man merely trying "to piece together some sort of meaning for his life." Take, for instance, the early chapters, in which he leaves the comforts of the small village where he grew up to attend school in a big city. There, he has a college experience like any other: meeting combative and supportive professors, struggling with grades and too much partying, and spending long nights sharing new ideas with new friends. Surely many readers will recognize these experiences. This is the great empathetic work that fiction can do: taking a life from the past and making it relatable. A moving, inventive and poetic work of biographical fiction.

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